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Trump administration faces backlash over Yosemite park giveaway
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · SAD · 29. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering giving away a section of the renowned Yosemite National Park to a private developer. An investigation published on Friday by NOTUS, a news outlet, said the government had spent over a year quietly working to transfer a rou…

Japan to convert car park near Tokyo Station into missile shelter
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 29. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

The Tokyo metropolitan government has unveiled a plan to use an underground facility near Tokyo Station as a shelter for residents and tourists in the event of a ballistic missile attack. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike told a press conference earlier this month that a survey would b…

Trump says US has deal with Venezuela for control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · SAD · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

President Donald Trump on Friday said the US has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves. Trump in a social media post announced the agreement he said was negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, …

US Treasury sanctions Hong Kong-based firm over Iran money laundering ties
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

The United States announced sanctions on a Hong Kong company on Friday for allegedly helping launder funds for a sanctioned Iranian exchange house, the latest Chinese entity to be targeted as part of Washington’s expanded efforts to squeeze Iran’s financial sector. The developmen…

UK far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by US immigration
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · SAD · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

US immigration officials arrested controversial British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday in New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Immigration officials announced on Friday that Yiannopoulos was arrested at Louis Armstrong New Orleans In…

Can Beijing’s gateway plan for Tibet survive geopolitics and natural disasters?
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

On the windswept plains just south of Tibet’s second-largest city, the towering smart inspection systems and automated cargo gantries of a brand-new international land port gleam under the plateau’s high-altitude sun. Official road maps predict the multibillion-yuan project in Sh…

US-China AI rivalry needn’t preclude cooperation
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Artificial intelligence (AI) poses risks that do not respect national borders, from cyberattacks and misinformation to system malfunction and potentially dangerous misuse. In a geopolitically charged world, does greater incompatibility between countries make AI safer? UN Secretar…

China-Nepal floods: rescuers pull out survivors caked in mud as toll climbs
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed nearly 600 people and left almost 2,500 missing. The rescue efforts included a team that rappelled …

Trump orders creation of US ‘Space Academy’, amid rivalry with China
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · SAD · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

US President Donald Trump on Friday announced the creation of a “Space Academy” to train future civilian and military recruits for an arena where the United States faces rivalry with China. Speaking at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Trump said the institution would be mo…

As Iran war hits six-month mark, Trump says he’s ‘not in a hurry’
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Bliski Istok · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

President Donald Trump arrives at an awkward moment for his presidency on Friday as the US-Israel war against Iran reaches the six-month mark, a notable milestone for a conflict that the Republican leader repeatedly assured Americans would be a “little excursion” lasting a matter…

The ‘Asian water tower’ is starting to wobble, computer simulations show
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

“Asia’s water tower” is heading towards a more unpredictable and unstable future, according to a new study measuring the Tibetan Plateau’s stability. The study, published on August 21 in Nature Communications, examined the entropy of the region to gauge how much chaos or disorder…

China moves to stabilise property sector with ‘stronger-than-expected’ policy package
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Beijing has unveiled a package of measures to shift home sales in China’s vast property market away from a presales model, in a stronger-than-expected push to stabilise a property downturn that has weighed on consumer demand for years. A notice released on Friday laid out reforms…

Unmanned electric aircraft makes maiden flight in Hong Kong
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

An unmanned electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft made its maiden demonstration flight in Hong Kong on Friday, as the city pushes to develop a low-altitude economy, with the government aiming to complete drafting relevant legislation by 2027. The flight marked a…

China strips former generals Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli of top military positions
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Beijing has formally removed former senior officers Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli as members of China’s supreme military command. The two generals have been under investigation for alleged discipline violations since January and were officially stripped of their positions on the Ce…

Uzbekistan tests US-China AI rift with bid to join rival tech bloc
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · SAD · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

The Central Asian country of Uzbekistan has approached the United States about joining Pax Silica, Washington’s flagship initiative on artificial intelligence (AI) supply chains, a month after signing up for China’s own global grouping, the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperati…

China’s radar satellites capture sharp images of glacier collapse site in Nepal
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Within hours of a devastating glacier collapse on the China-Nepal border, a Beijing-based satellite company had already redirected six of its satellites to survey the disaster zone. The high-resolution radar images they captured revealed a massive collapse site near a remote moun…

2 dead in school attack near Berlin
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Europa · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

One of the two people killed in an attack at a school near Berlin was a 30-year-old nursery worker, police said on Friday. It had previously been reported that the man who was killed in Thursday’s attack was the caretaker. A woman and a man were killed in the violent incident at …

US and China must team up to keep maritime trade routes free and safe
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

With the end of the 60-day US-Iran memorandum of understanding, tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have flared again. The crisis in the strait highlights how the security and stability of key international waterways are becoming an increasingly urgent global concern. Over the past …

Germany jails man, 81, for life over murder of tourist 30 years ago
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

An 81-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for the murder of an American tourist more than 30 years ago, the presiding judge at Koblenz Regional Court, Rupert Stehlin, announced on Friday. The court also found that the offence was of a particularly seri…

Why Malaysia’s push for 15 million Muslim tourists is no sure thing
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Bliski Istok · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Malaysia sees an opening in the Gulf travel disruption caused by the Iran war, pitching itself as a Muslim-friendly destination for travellers seeking halal food, prayer facilities and family-focused holidays. But such gains could be limited because the conflict has not only weak…

Gong Zizheng, who led China’s planetary defence project, dies at 61
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Gong Zizheng, a pioneer of space debris research and a key figure in China’s planned asteroid defence mission, has died at 61. A top government adviser and prominent leader in international space debris organisations, Gong died on Saturday after a battle with illness, according t…

How the Nepal flash flood unleashed a wave of anti-China misinformation
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

To scientists, the cause of this week’s deadly flash flood on the border between China and Nepal is clear: a glacier high on the Nepal side of the Himalayan range collapsed, sending catastrophic amounts of water and debris downstream. Initial uncertainty over the cause of the eve…

Hong Kong launches first regional mediation platform for medical disputes
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Hong Kong has launched the first regional mediation and arbitration platform dedicated to medical and healthcare services as part of the city’s efforts to resolve local and cross-border disputes and strengthen its bid to become an international legal services hub. The Healthcare …

Could the China-Nepal disaster spur a safety rethink for a flagship rail project?
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

This week’s devastating floods on the China-Nepal border could be a catalyst for joint early-warning systems, particularly in relation to a proposed rail link between the countries. Rescuers were still struggling on Thursday to reach Gyirong Port in the Tibet autonomous region wh…

Xi-Trump summit plans, Nepal disaster, SCO summit
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 28. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Chinese President Xi Jinping may take a business delegation to Washington next month, when he is also likely to sign a trade-war truce extension with US President Donald Trump. The potential business delegation is under negotiation ahead of the September 24 summit, the South Chin…

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